Good evening, everyone and welcome. We are delighted to have you with us to share thoughts on the uses and abuses of the englishlanguage. The right words will be the subject of the conversation between mr. Buckley and his longtime editor. After the program, he will be happy to take a few questions and sign copies of your book. Hes edited 22 of his books. He worked many years as public editor and currently editor at large at random house inc. And he will now introduce start buckley. Thank you. [laughter] the book is called buckley, the right word. After i read the subtitle, the evening is over called about uses of language and about vocabulary, uses, style and speaking, fiction, diction and dictionaries, reviews of interviews, electric on online eloquence and journalism and more. He should have been edited. [laughter] any lengthy information about buckley will be unnecessary and dumb. If you dont know who he is, i dont know why youre here. Violating the iron rule of those who introduce
Education committee looks at how to open schools safely in the fall during the pandemic. Members will hear from the Dallas School superintendent, the national pga president , and the pediatrics professor. Watch live at 10 15 eastern on cspan three, online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States have managed to get their attention. Landmark cases. Cspans special history series. Produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may please the court, quite often in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases to illustrate very dramatically the visual of what it means for different people who have helped to stick together because they created a rule of law. Good evening and welcome t
In the 1960 s. The United States and the soviet union were in boils in a race into space. It was a contest involving huge amounts of material and personnel. Nasa alone employed thousands of people with the goal of putting an american on the moon. But it wasnt just the americans and the russians who were reaching for the stars a Small Company from got consisting of half a dozen engineers wanted to go toe to toe with the superpowers. To put missiles our promise was not to go high tech but to go low cost cost. Look bloated get your shorts hog was the 1st ever private space and room inside the. Chapel hill n. C. Later and they were going to launch a rocket into orbit and that the launch site would be somewhere in africa and thats when they came up with zaire. And almost all odds we looked at the map which is where your anywhere off know. How to discuss us traffic will i had this reeling that going to the jungle was somehow like opening the door to some offenses back to the bush on. The ide
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Today we are on the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Unc chapel hill is the First State University in the country. This is a contested claim we argue with the university of georgia about. Both have a claim. Uncs charter came a few years later. It had already graduated a couple of classes. The university and city were founded at the same time. So, when this area was selected, there was no town or village here. There were a few neighboring farms. There was an anglican chapel on inn. Ite of the carolina an auction of town lots. They understood that if the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a business around it to support businesses, places for people to live. They were in essence born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1789. The ground broke in 1793 and it was about a year and a half when the university opened. They had events on campus here. No students showed up. It took another few weeks before the student arrived. Firsthe came o